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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 82, 83, 87. 1886. 2] Whereas the said county of Dubuque, under the powers conferred by said act, sold to John and Thomas Burton the said tract of land situated on the northeast corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in said town of Dubuque, on which the old county jail stood and designated on the Government plat of said town as ··* public square,” the same being a rectangular tract fronting one hundred and fourteen feet on Seventh street and one hundred and twenty-seven feet and eleven inches on Locust street; but in the deed from said county to said John and Thomas Burton the same clerical error was made as to the corner on which said tract was situated as was made in said act: Therefore, as curative of the error aforesaid, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said rectangular tract Error in descripof land on the northeast corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in the fi¤¤ of IMM! wrcity of Dubuque, Dubuque County, State of Iowa, fronting one hundred ’°°*°d· and fourteen teet on Seventh street and one hundred and twenty-seven feet and eleven inches on Locust street, being the premises on which the old county jail formerly stood, and designated on the Government plat as “public square," be, and is hereby, granted and the title thereto confirmed in and to said county of Dubuque, and its grantees, the said John and Thomas Burton, their heirs and assigns iorever, with like effect in all respects as though correctly described in said original act and in the said conveyance thereunder by said county. Approved, May 3, 1886. CHAP. 83.-A.n act limiting the cost of the erection of a public building at Roch- May 3, 18%. ester, New York. ‘·‘*-*‘* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the amount heretofore Rochester, N. Y. iixed as the limit of cost for the erection of a public building by the Pnblic b¤iidi¤5z· United States Government at Rochester, New York, be, and the same rgstzlt °f °°“* m' is hereby, increased to five hundred thousand dollars, and that sum is ° ' hereby fixed as the limit of cost for the erection of said building and for the payment for the site thereof. Sec. 2. That the officers of the United States Government having Plans, &9·,_ tn charge of the erection of public buildings are required to be governed ;*P“f°'m *° 1“'“*°" by the limitation hereby prescribed in making plans and contracts for '°"' the erection of said building. . Sec. 3. That the provisions of existing law relating to said building Open space robe so amended as to require an open space of not less than twenty feet, d“\‘j°?· 9, in lieu of forty feet, as provided by the act of May twentydiith, eight-, °”’ P' ' een hundred and eighty-two. Approved, May 3, 1886. CHAP. 87.——An act to grant the right of way for railroad purposes through the May 6, 18%. lands of the United States powder-depot near Dover, New Jersey, to the Morris County —————-——-—- Railroad Company. Whereas an act of Congress was passed heretofore in the following words, to wit: _ lands of the United States powder-depot near Dover, New Jersey. P0','},'{§,, dawg D, "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United vm-, N, J, States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way, not_ex- Prearnbie. ceeding one hundred feet in width, through the lands of the United V°l· *2· P- 1*- States included in the Piccatinny powder-depot, near Dover, in the · State of New Jersey, is hereby granted to the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, for the purpose of constructing a railroad: Provided, That the said right of way, and the width and location thereof,
 * ‘An act to grant the right of way for railroad purposes through the thm8b; Igfldswtii,